Biographical Notes

PAUL J. CHARLETY

PAUL J. CHARLETY obtained his DVM degree at the French National Veterinary School of Lyon (France) and his Ph.D. in Neurosciences at University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. He joined the NTT Basic Research Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in October, 1993, to work on biological neuronal networks.

He plans to be with NTT until October, 1995.

RORY DUECK is currently working in the NTT Musashino Research Lab, Network Service System Laboratories, Control System Architecture Group. He is a senior undergraduate student in the Electrical Engineering Co-op Program at the University of Victoria in Canada. Between academic semesters at university, he has worked short (4-12 month) terms in provincial government technical support, local high-tech industry, and government sponsored research (National Research Council of Canada).

He plans to be with NTT until November, 1994.

MICHAEL JAN EKENSTEDT obtained his B.Sc. from University of Goteborg (Sweden) in Physics. As an undergraduate, he also studied at the University of Sussex (England) for one term. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics in December, 1993, at the University of Goteborg/Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg (Sweden). Since coming to NTT's Basic Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in late December 1993, he has been working with strain induced effects on the growth of lattice mismatched materials by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). In addition, he is interested in problems related to doping and growth of III-V semiconductors, as well as general semiconductor physics.

He plans to be with NTT until January, 1996.

STEFAN HEUN was born in 1964 in Berlin (Germany). He studied Physics at the Universitaet Hannover (Germany), where he did his diploma work and Ph.D. dissertation with Prof. Henzler's group. His Ph.D. dissertation involved epitaxy of semiconductors and metals on silicon. Since November, 1993, he joined the NTT Interdisciplinary Research Labs in Musashino as a postdoctoral fellow. These days, he frequently performs his experiments at the Photon Factory in Tsukuba, where he investigates the properties of alkaline earth fluorides on III-V semiconductors.

He plans to be with NTT until November, 1995.

BRUNO HUTTNER graduated from the French Engineering School, Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1984. After a two year interruption due to the compulsory military service (which he spent studying the ionosphere and the polar aurora in the French Antarctic research base in Terre Adelie), Bruno continued his studies at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. He obtained his D.Sc. in Physics in 1990 for his work in theoretical Quantum Optics (generation and detection of non-classical light). He did a first postdoc at the University of Oxford (U.K.), working on the generation of squeezed light in semiconductors. Since December, 1993, he became a research associate in the Quantum Physics Theory research group of the NTT's Basic Research Laboratories. His present research interest is mainly Quantum Cryptography, or how a symbiosis of Quantum Mechanics and Information Theory will enable to beat Big Brother!

Bruno is married and has a new baby girl.

He plans to be with NTT until December, 1995.

FRIEDLAND KLAUS JURGEN obtained his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Physics, from the Leningrad State University (Russia). He is employed by the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, Germany. He came to the NTT Basic Research Laboratory as an invited scientist in July, 1994. He has been working in the field of optical and transport properties in semiconductors.

He plans to be with NTT until January, 1995.

IL-JUNG KIM was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1986, 1988, and 1992 respectively. His dissertation work involved the optimum design of silicon power MOSFET's. He joined the NTT Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories in 1993, where he has been working on the modeling and characterization of silicon-on-insulator devices for high-voltage and high-frequency applications.

He plans to be with NTT until March, 1995.

ELISABETH ANNE MARLEY obtained her B.S. degree from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) in Electrical Engineering. She will begin work on her M.S. degree at MIT (Boston, Massachusetts) in September, 1994. She joined NTT in May, 1994, for a three-month internship. During her stay at NTT, she has worked on oblique illumination optical lithography in the Manufacturing Systems Technology Laboratory.

She plans to be with NTT until August, 1994.

VINCENT VAN OOSTROM obtained his B.A. at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (The Netherlands) in Computer Science, and the Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in March, 1994 also in computer science. After that, he came to NTT's Basic Research Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in April, 1994. He is working on theoretical aspects of higher-order rewriting and has interests in theoretical computer science, logic and their applications, particularly in terms of rewriting, lambda calculus and proofsystems.

He plans to be with NTT until April, 1995.

SEOP HYEONG PARK received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University (Korea) in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering in 1984, 1986, and 1990, respectively. He then worked in the HDTV Development Center at the Korean Academy of Industrial Technology from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he joined Korean Telecom where he worked on digital video compression and transmission through BISDN. He came to the NTT Human Interface Laboratory in Yokosuka as a visiting researcher in October, 1993. He is currently working on compression and post-processing of HDTV signals and is interested in signal processing and multimedia communication including VOD (video on demand).

He plans to be with NTT until September, 1994.

TAIHONG WANG was born in Hubei province, China on November 19, 1966. He received his Ph.D degree in Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) in 1993. His graduate work focused on material growth and device fabrication. He was also the winner of both the 1992 Excellent Student Award in Vacuum Physics and the 1993 Ye Qisun Experimental Physics Award. Now he is working on the single electron transistor in the Tarucha group of the NTT Basic Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

He plans to be with NTT until November, 1995.

LEO WEEGELS obtained his engineering degree in Applied Physics and his Ph.D. at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands). In December, 1992, he joined the NTT Basic Research Labs as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been working on real-time monitoring and characterization of semiconductor surfaces during plasma exposure. He has interests in optical properties of low-dimension semiconductor structures.

He plans to be with NTT until December, 1994.

XIA-XING XIONG received his B.D. from the Physics Department of Fudan University (Shanghai, China) in 1984. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Shanghai Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Sinica Academy (China) with his dissertation work on the high resolution spectrum of highly excited atoms. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fudan University from 1989 until he became a faculty member of that same university in 1991. On Feb 1, 1994, he joined the NTT Basic Research Labs, Quantum Optics Group as a postdoctoral fellow. He is now working on the field of microcavity semiconductor lasers. Presently, he is interested in semiconductor lasers, quantum optics and related fields.

He plans to be with NTT until February, 1996.

FREDERIC ZAMKOTSIAN obtained his engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Marseille (France) in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Aix-Marseille (France) in 1993. The subject of his dissertation was the design, realization and characterization of a polarization modulator integrated on the unusual (110) InP crystallographic plane. He came to NTT's Opto-electronics Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in October, 1993. His research interests are in the design of guided wave devices on InP and their integration with active components as MQW electro-absorption modulators.

He plans to be with NTT until September, 1994.